 Kris Balderston |
As president of global public affairs and strategic engagement, Balderston will now lead FH’s worldwide public affairs operations as he identifies and develops opportunities with partners and within the agency’s client portfolio.
 Robert Hoopes |
In filling the GM vacancy left by Balderston’s appointment, FleishmanHillard has also announced that Robert Hoopes, president of FH’s public affairs shop, VOX Global, has now been named general manager of the Washington, D.C. office.
Hoopes, who was previously special assistant to then-Senator Joseph Biden and also served as VP Biden’s chief of staff at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, held a senior manager role at telcom giant MCI WorldCom as well as an EVP position at Weber Shandwick's Powell Tate operation. He was named president of VOX Global after FleishmanHillard acquired his agency, Hoopes Strategies, in 2007.
Hoopes will now oversee management and business operations of FH’s Capitol Hill office. He retains his duties as VOX Global president.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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